This Much is True

by Miriam Margolyes

importantly, he was actually a decent man. He was the apotheosis

You just have to face who you are and deal with it, and for the most part I do.

We are all scared. We are all secretly shaking with fright inside, uncertain of what we should be doing, saying and thinking; anxious about what our lives are going to be. I believe that if you can allay those fears, if you can soothe people, and hug them, and make them feel it’s going to be all right, you’re doing a public service. Often most of us are too busy, or worried, or tired, or just can’t be bothered to take on the difficulties that another person is going through. But if you can, it makes the most enormous difference to try to understand the other person, to try to feel their pain, and to see the world through their eyes.